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    • If a pig is sick, it stops curling its tail.
  • In the 1860s Thomas Edison developed a device to electrocute cockroaches.
  • The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.
  • The thickest skin on your body is on your foot. It’s three times thicker than the skin on your palms.
  • Seventy percent of books published do not earn back their advance.
  • The top six reasons for being late to work are traffic, oversleeping, procrastination, household chores, car problems and having sex.
  • Swedish law prohibits trained seals from balancing balls on their noses.
  • Bees have different dialects. A German bee cannot understand an Italian bee.
  • On average, women break into a sweat at a body temperature of 1 degree F higher than men, but, once they do start to perspire, sweat just as much as men.
  • The largest Polish population on earth is in Warsaw, Poland. The second largest polish population is in Chicago.
  • The most-performed rock song in history is “”You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling.””
  • Before the American Revolution, there wasn’t a single bank in America.
  • Walt Disney World is twice the size of Manhattan.
  • Eighty-five percent of obscene phone calls are made by males.
  • The scientific term for kissing is “”osculation.””
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